School planning to get more specific

11:22 PM,
Apr. 17, 2013

Written by

Adam B Sullivan
| Iowa City Press-Citizen

School officials were underwhelmed at turnout to last week's facilities planning sessions, but they hope interest will spike as the Iowa City Community School District's construction plans become more clear.

The district hosted three so-called visioning workshops last week in hopes of garnering community input about upcoming building projects. Officials reserved an off-site space to handle what they hoped would be hundreds of attendees, but the three sessions only garnered a combined 180 participants.

"I would like us to do a better job of really engaging folks and driving ...